Professor, Johns Hopkins University | Author
Philipp Koehn has been working on machine translation for the last quarter century, published over 200 research papers and two textbooks on the topic. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California. He was a professor at the University of Edinburgh before he joined Johns Hopkins University in 2014. He is currently mainly working on machine translation, speech translation, and multilingual aspects of large language models. He received funding for the US and EU governments, Amazon, Google, Meta, Bloomberg, and others. He also worked closely with industry (Meta, Omniscien Technology, Systran, etc.) to deploy the technology.